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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: pcstel who wrote (145831)9/13/2014 4:18:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress

Yup. That means he gets to write the regulations about how the executive branch will accomplish that. You can do things like saying, "We don't have the manpower to find all undocumented people, so save the Dreamer kids for last."

For instance, Ike did this...

Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code defines tax-exempt social welfare groups like this:

Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.


In 1959, under the administration of Dwight Eisenhower, the meaning of this section was changed dramatically when the IRS decided the word “exclusively” could, in effect, be read as “primarily.”

msnbc.com

They also defined “primarily” as 51%.
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